Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

- Walters, Dottie

Best Quotes about Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy